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I! t- -r- PAGE TWELVE 1 The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Bungay worning, ociiu by GLADYS JOHNSON A fascinating story of an American girl who seeks the destiny of real love. i , i - i 1 &&SIM, : TIlf IjMHB)99 i . a- il ? ? ! l ? ; i r i J ' i ; i i i i 1 i 1 1 I i t i i t i t f 1 :4 J I it It i i t (Continued from page 1) it, Ardetb, say you're my girl." She had began to struggle wildly, but In silence. Fighting herself now, because It was ex citing and pleasant to hate Keil'a turns about her. "Please let me go! Neil, they'll wonder somebodyll come out and Hud us " "Sh-h-h!" The warning stilled her. She ceased to struggle and Neil's arms grew tense about her ae loot steps scraped on the wooden steps outside. The front door opened. Heavy footsteps going up the stairs over their heads. The girl smothered a nervous giggle, and In the dart Neil grin ned. A door upstairs opened. Shut "It's Tom!" The girl's whisper. Tve got to go!" . The spell was broken. He did not resist when she drew out of his arms, hut fc hung on to one hand and asked softly: "Want to go to a movie to night?" "Can't." She was groping fer the banister. "Have to wash out some things for tomorrow." "Why?" came his quick, sus picious whisper. "Who are you go ing out with?" She laughed teasingly. Snatch ed her hand away and rap lightly up the steps. He thrust a quick hand through the spokes of the banister and caughC one all m ankle. "Who you going out with?" he repeated darkly. She squirmed. Smothered a laugh. "You! Foolish! Now will you let me go?" "I'll be up in the morning " He freed her and she fled up the stairs. In the dark upper hall she stopped for a moment to collect herself, pressing fingers against her hot cheeks to cool them. Sharp eyes were waiting" beyond that door which showed a yel low streak of light at the thresh hold. Ardeth pulled her hat straight. Tucked the ends of her hair un der. Smoothed herblouse cromp- j ed by Neil's embrace. j Nell shouldn't do that wait j each night for her to come home, j He reached the house a whole half hour before she did. At the sound of her footsteps lie would slip out of his.avn flat and meet her In the hall. The dark space under the stairs had seen many such silent skirm ishes as It had witnessed tonight. Of course there was nothing really wrong. After all she was Neil's girl. Some day, she sup posed, they'd get married. That was the way marriages happened in Ardeth's circle of life. You saw a boy you liked or some- ' times you didn't even like him but there was no one else around at the moment. You went to a party with him or to a movie. You went again. Pretty soon peo ple began to expect you to be al ways together. Pretty soon you found people expected you to get married. So you did. Ardeth was Neil's girl. For three year3 she'd been called his j girl before then, in fact he'd j he'd gone with her. Ever since j she'd come to live with aunt Stel moment, how like Aunt Stel she would be in a few years' time. Ardeth flushed hotly. "You y)u nasty little spy!" Her voice was low and it shook. "Spy!" Bet leaped to her ; guns. "A person doesn't have to spy to see what a fool you make of yourself yojj boy-struck thing." "Boy-struck!'- Ardeth ! was stung into defense. "You're the boy-struck one! Hanging around the phone every night hoping- " "Stop it!" Aunt Stel leaped in to the breach. Pointing the: carv ing knife at her niece to empha size her words. ''Let me tell you one thing, my girl. If you---" "Oh, for God's sake!" Tom's bellow drowned them all Out. "Shut up, can't you? How'd you expect a guy to read his paper with a pack of women yelping about?" Crushing silence followed, for Tom was czar here. Though only twenty-six years of age, he was the elder son and had been th mainstay of the family since Uncle Ed -had died. He transfixed them with a glare before he returned to the sporting page. With an air of injured inno cence Bet subsided. Fan and Paul, the twins, who had bright ened up at the promise of a quar rel, turned in disappointment to their bread and gravy and resum ed their efforts to kick each oth er under the table, undetected. Aunt Stel set her face and grudg ingly served another portion of potroast. Ardetb went into the bedroom and pulled off her hat and coat. She hated these scenes coming at the end of a hard day's work. The depression which she always felt in this shabby house was creeping over her again. She hated this room which she shared with Bet. She hated the "golden oak" bed and dresser, scratched and warped with the years. The worn carpet. The; brok- i en-armed rocker. AH the little softening touches tho room owed to her. The pink shaded lamp on the dresser Neil had given her on her last birthday. The cretonne curtains three Sundays had gone Into their making. The pink bedspread that had taken the savings of a month. About the frame of the mirror, little photos of her Sunday out ings. Pictures Neil had taken. One of herself feeding the swans in the lake. She was looking up and laughing, her hair a light-touched tangle. That was her last Easter drt3 . . . She'd sewed on it for a mcnth and sheJiad saved for it for three. Ardeth's bitter eyes looked back at her from the mirror. So much .struggle for so little. This u?!y room. That cheap dres?. And there were girls v.ho had everything they wanted. The girl she talked to in the store today- -Jeanette Parker. Would the time come when she, too, would have everything she want ed? Ardeth wondered. r m X3- i LJittsaf r T'r-ei :. a if ; Aim I ji.MiM-x.m it Uit.iv - vr i u A silent straggle in the dark ball. Shut up, caH yon? How do you expect a guy to read his paper?" Ar- CJIAPTKU 2 Her father had named her deth. As Aunt Stel succiatly remark- I ed. "He would!" i t . i i . . a t and. found Neil Burke in the flat " dS ""f U1 J ' , bolow j rull s Igve of the strange and the Rut -Vi! aI.niM..'t ctf:. !,Pr at i""1""1". c,r" " "uu night like this. It made her late for dinner and she. wasn't sure she liked it. , Something leaped in her l.'e. :t at the memory of his mio-i about her there in the dark, 'iut she wasn't sure she wanted Nefl to kiss her like that. A shrill voice lifted be end the door and Ardeth ht'-Tird'y enter ed. ; The blaze of th? r-.Vm v.as daz- 1 zling after the dark hall. For a j moment the girl stood cgainst the door affr shut it, blinking. She could dimly sec the others look up from tpe dinner table. Ardeth was amazingly like her fjthei which was perhaps Aunt ?tel's cbtff reason for disliking her. You don't care to have a re nar.dcr of your secret and hope less love underfoot day and night, though you deny that lovfc, ven to your?elf. Jim Carroll had worn that sr.iue look of gay courage. That almost rapt air of gazing at some brave sight hidden from others. Charm had played like a flame lsanin" I w:inin mm an unconscious mag he had ! netisul wnich had drawn hearts to him as a light draws moths. The flame of him had ' drawn the pretty pale moth of Ardeth's riclher. R-.it thev rftiihl bpr aril though none of the five could" ! 5oIden by have expressed it in words, there was something vitsl about the girl as 6he stood there, which turned her to a flame dancing across the common grey of their lives. Long after she had passed out of their sphere each of them could recall Ardeth as she stood against the door. A gplden girl not even the blaze of unshaded electric light could dim the rad iance of her. Youth and dawning passion 'had kindled a fire which played la her eyes. The hair whicn escaped from, her hat shone with vitality and the cheek tt carress ed was the golden pink of a ripe apricot. Tender and lovely as ehe stood there, her eyes touched with dreams, her lips tipped with smile. But dreams ' and smiles had nothing to do with Stella Har rison. From her place at the end of the table where she was carv ing the potroast, Ardeth's aunt relieved her mind. "It's a wonder to me you wouldn't try to get here to your meals on time for once! Of all the inconsiderate people! Here I can cook my face to .death over a hot stcve for you and you think you can come in like a lady when you please, with never so mach as a thank rvu!'V The flame died down in Ar detb. She had the startled look of one rudely awakened. "Oh . . . r msorry. Aunt Stel. I I had fo stay a little later. Mr. Hugeson wanted us to check some new stock " She was checked by a snort from Bet. Aunt SU'i's elder tlaughter,a girl a year younger than Ardetb. -"That's a hot one!" Jeered Bet. ' "I suppose you think we don't know you were down there In the hall necking with Neil Burke! Honestly, I should think you'd be ashamed! I'd die with shame if . anyone opened the door and walked in on you!" A hard, prim little line came around Bet's young mouth when eb& said this. You saw, In that She had married this of hers had born him a golden child. And ; in her secret heart she had neve'r ceas ed to marvel that Jim Carroll had ever wanted to marry! her at all. It had lent her a! dazed, slightly breathless air at times. She never bad understood the vivid joy of life in him. She was content merely to Idolize him. A frail, slightly pathetic i figure Thelma Carroll had been swung violently through life by the blaz ing comet of her love. She; lived only In the Tlvid flame of her man and when that flame went out Jim Carroll coujd not resist the hot excitement of war, though he had a wife and child depend ent upon him Thelma had quiet ly faded away from the earth. Ardetb had come to liv with Aunt Stel at the death of ; her parents. Aunt Stel had hidden her feel ings well. No one had guessed the violent Jealousy which swept her when handsome : Jim Carroll had come courting her younger sister, Thelma. After Thelma's marriage Stel had married ; Ed Harrison, Just to show Jim that she could. Not even Ardeth guessed !hy her aunt was so severe with her. She supposed it was because of Bet. ; M To a certain extent she was right. Betty Harrison, ; sandy haired and pasty, seemed j more uninteresting than ever by com parison with her cousin. ; ; At twelve, Ardeth could not be sent to the corner store without annexing at least one attentive male escort. But Neil Burke, by a sort of Kouatter's rieht through fits icsiuciiw i u 1117 nai. ctw n , quickly established his monopoly of the girl, tl was then that Bet experienced the same Jealous pangs her mother had : known some years before. : j Curled up on their mutual bed now, elaborately filing her nails. Bet registered large scorn pf Ar deth before the mirror. 1 'For the love of Pete quit primping!" she said sourly.: "A person'd think you: were j going out with the Prince of Wales." Ardeth laugftfd- without mal ice. The discontent of the! night before was gone. Such a Biraple thing as a Sunday outing! could send the "joy of life bubbling through her. : H Ardeth loved Sundays.; (Loved the delicious sense of leisure they brought ... to dress in one's own time ... to put on oneis best things even that was an adven ture. I She was going for a rids with Neil in his cut-down Ford. But the sun was shining and she was ( wearing a sport dress which she j had bought in a noon-hour sale the day before. At twehty that is excuse for being happy. I S She turned before thej glass now in innocent vanity., Ardeth i roved being pretty loved the feci of her silk stockings! : ' i Those silk stockings! I Aunt Stel's basilisk gaze fell. oo them now as she stood in the doorway, swathed in a frayed silk kimona, whose painted iris had long with ered to a discouraged greyness. "New stockings again!: Silk all the way up, I'll bet though the Beehive, basement had a sale on lisle tops last week! Why any decent girl has to have heif stock- rings silk where they don't show. beats me!" ; ; "It isn't Just the looks, ; Aunt Stel," Ardeth explained j absent ly, her attention going to 'pulling on her hat without disarranging her hair. "It's the feel. It's Just to know that they're ill silk." "Well, be sure you don't have a tumble with your fine! ideas!" retorted Aunt Stel, darkly. "And those flimsy silk and lace things you wear underneath going around half naked, the way no good girl would dream of going when I was young " Their havy disapproval lay all about her like a wet cloud. But balm to her young pride, the look Neil turned on her as she came down the front steps in response to the toot of the auto horn. Slim and vivid and golden In the morning sunshine,' she was. Creams and browns of the new sport suit playing up to the gold of her hazel eyes glowing under the brim of the new brown hat. The young fellow's black eyes devoured her. He breathed "Gee, you're sweet " as she sated her self beside him. Ardeth's heart leaped under his gaze as It leaped when be put his arms about her. bat there was a little uncomfortable edge on her thoughts at his fervor. It was pleasant to have Neil say nice things but when he grew so serious she was a little afraid of him. Neil's whole family was queer His father. Cemus Burke was a bitter, unsuccessful man who vented his disappointment of life by railing against everything.- His quarrelsome disposition had .won him a "reputation as a trouble maker. WOrk was becoming In creasingly hard for him to obtain that added to grievance and bis railing; thus the circle rounded on itself. Nell's mother was dead. His grandmother kept the bouse. A mystic did Irishwoman, half liv ing In a fanciful world of her own. The boy's fiery nature had been warped by the constant associa tion of these two. At twenty three he was on the defense against the world. Romantically good looking he fluttered fem inine hearts in the neighborhood, but in all the world there was only Ardeth Carroll for him. Perhaps he already had some inkling that he might lose her, for he was passionately Jealous. He swept the girl along on the surge of his own emotions, try ing to snatch by force the love he was not patient enough to fos ter. Ardeth had learned to dread the black moods of Neil. She strove gallantly now to put the situation on a lighter plane. . "Oh, it's gorgeous to be out in the sunshine!'' She smoothed the jileats of her short skirt. "Go out through the park? Neil, let's see the other cars." It was the first bright day af ter a wyk of fog. The park high ways were crowded- sedan and limousine; snappy roadster and cut-down Ford. Little of the snob in the heart of Ardeth. however. The big sil ent cars spinning past moved her to admiration, not envy. Enough to be alive and happy in the sun shine today. To know one was pretty and young. To feel this se cret thrill of expectancy holding one's breath, it was, In a way waiting for something glorious to happf n. The cars were checked. The equestrian path crossed the high way here, and the traffic officer was permitting the riders to cross. Sleek proud horses carrying sleek proud people. They moved through a different world, these high-stepping horses and the men Ardeth. That blonde girl there In the linen trousers and black coat a pretty girl, and so sure ef her self. Look at her turn and speak to the man on the bay mare be side her. That man! Ardeth found her self sitting tense leaning for ward, her heart in her eyes. A tall and laughing young fel low riding so easily. The sun gleaming on his brown hair, flashing on his white smile- As though the intent gaze of the girl drew his, the young fel low suddenly looked oyer. His eyes plunged deep into the eyes of the girl as he went by. At her side, Ardeth heard Neil draw in bis breath jealously. (To be continued) "Copyright 1930, by King Fea tures Syndicate, Inc." Cashier of Bank Routes Bandits FURLEY, Kas., Sept. 5.0. (AP) Armed only with his bare fists, E. D. Merrill, cashier of the Farley State bank Friday routed a would be bank bandit, forcing him to flee empty-handed. Merrill, whose Institution often handles largo sums involved in cattle transaction, met 4 stranger who entered the bank with drawn gun, with a right to the Jaw. The man attempted to fire, but a safe ty catch on the gun prevented it. 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